Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 31, 2007
Amazing how fast we slide right back into "real life." Davos was only a couple of days ago and already I'm neck deep into my normal work. It is worth taking a moment to reflect on the many faces of the Davos experience. Each person attending has many options to choose among, and you can't do it all. Here are just a few of the Davos' I saw in action last week.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 19, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Zen of Nonprofit CRM January 19, 2007 I was reading about the GetActive/Convio merger, and I have some thoughts about it… It is clear that the CRM/Fundraising space is getting interesting, first with the entry of Salesforce , and, now, the mergers of GetActive and Convio , and Blackbaud and Target.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 8, 2007
A picture of me taken on my third birthday, almost 47 years ago! My 50th birthday is this month and I'm celebrating it with a Flickr Photo Birthday Card Remix Contest. I will donate $50 to the winner's favorite cause or charity. I'm also using this as an action research project to figure out a few things about flickr contests and user-generated content which I'll report back later IF ENOUGH people participate. 1.
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 11, 2007
According to Ode Magazine , The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranks Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. The HPI is calculated by adding the country's life expectancy with its life satisfaction divided by its ecological footprint. The top ranked countries were: 1. Vanuatu 2. Colombia 3. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5.
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JANUARY 25, 2007
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Forum One
JANUARY 21, 2007
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 19, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The Zen of Nonprofit CRM January 19, 2007 I was reading about the GetActive/Convio merger, and I have some thoughts about it… It is clear that the CRM/Fundraising space is getting interesting, first with the entry of Salesforce , and, now, the mergers of GetActive and Convio , and Blackbaud and Target.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 9, 2007
The NpTech Tag discussion continues. Gavin's original post is here (Gavin, please track back to this and approve your track backs if you are moderating them). There were a few more comments that I want to capture here: Kevin (don't know who he is, but we have very similar interests and I'm so glad that I found his blog via the NpTech tag - I don't think this tag is useless?
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 10, 2007
I am often asked for advice from nonprofits that want to start a blog. Here are five of the tips I most frequently give: 1. Read blogs. I can’t tell you how many amazing, visionary nonprofit leaders I talk to who when I ask them if they read blogs say, “I read email.” There are lots of theories about what is the best social media tool to first introduce to nonprofits.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 24, 2007
Browsing through some old posts in the always worthwhile Creating Passionate Users blog, I came across this interesting post from last March: Ultra-fast release cycles and the new plane. The post is about the growing popularity of extremely short turn arounds between versions that has become characteristic of web2.0-type development - what O'Reilly called the permanent beta.
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Forum One
JANUARY 16, 2007
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 28, 2007
Every year there's a big party at the WEF on the last night (Saturday). Countries vie to sponsor the main event, throwing a big show and serving up their best food. Of course, the reason is economic development. After the opening show, we were treated to a short video extolling the virtues of investing in Malaysia. Knowing their audience it prominently featured a beautiful golf course (and of course beautiful Malaysian women).
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 19, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Spirituality and Technology January 19, 2007 A number of people have written me, and said that they appreciate that there is a blog with a spiritual take on technology. I initially intended to do a lot more about that, but got kinda caught up in the geeky stuff.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 28, 2007
Photo by/NC from Matthew Saunders' Flickr Stream. TechSoup holds regular meetings for nonprofits in Second Life and I have been attending regularly and sometimes facilitate like this I did this past week. So, I've been reflecting about effective facilitation of virtual meetings in Second Life Right now the primary method of group interaction is via unmoderated chat interface.
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Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 24, 2007
Reem Rahim is the Co-founder and Vice President of Marketing of the Oakland-based green business Numi Tea. She is also the creator of the beautiful cover art on the tea's boxes. In the Fall of 1999, brother and sister Ahmed and Reem had a vision to revive the "serenity, creativity, and comfort that is inspired by the simple art of tea." Now they are the #9 brand in the natural food industry out of about 225 tea companies.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 20, 2007
When Doria and I were in Mali earlier this month, we found that our nephew Fodé Camara had started to work with a group called Siguida Keneyali - Health in Our Homes - an organization working to improve health in Sikoroni, the poorest Quartier in Bamako. While we were there, we had a chance to talk to Fodé and his colleagues Caitlin Cohen and Modibo Niang about the organization and its approach.
Forum One
JANUARY 14, 2007
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 25, 2007
I attended the Internet governance panel this morning (lest you think that Davos is all play and no work). Fascinating panel: Vint Cerf (Google), Michael Dell(), John Markoff (New York Times), Hamadoun Toure (ITU), Jonathan Zittrain (Oxford) and moderated by Paul Saffo (Institute for the Future). Just a few snapshots: John Markoff did an effective job of telling us how bad things are.
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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 6, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tagging Discussion January 6, 2007 Beth started a cross-blog discussion about tagging and folksonomies, and I thought I’d weigh in. Gavin started this all off by posting a good and interesting set of questions about the efficiency of folksonomies.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 27, 2007
Hats for Health is an idea that comes from John Powers, one of my blog readers. He sent me a batch of hats for my birthday, along with the history and how he is connecting the idea of making party hats to stamping out water-borne diseases in the developing world. Thanks John!
Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 25, 2007
Have you ever thought about starting a green cafe? Well, Chris Waters of the Nomad Cafe in Oakland not only thought about it, he made it happen. When the WorldChanging SF bloggers had their first face-to-face meeting there, I asked Chris if he would do an e-interview with me about how he started the cafe, what makes it green and how other people can start their own green cafes.
Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 18, 2007
The 2007 Non-Profit Technology Conference is coming to my town! Yup, it's April 4-6 in Washington, D.C. I had a great time traveling to Seattle for last year's meeting, but it will be very pleasant to just roll out of my own bed and wander up the hill for muffins and coffee! Members Only Software will be participating in the science fair (nothings changed in my life in 50 years, has it?
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Forum One
JANUARY 8, 2007
Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week. I wish I was able to attend, but am glad that many of my clients have the opportunity to go.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 25, 2007
Davos is more than eating, drinking, and paneling (speeches). Significant numbers of other activities are here, and they are often unusual. Cool cars Every year Audi offers advanced driving courses. This year, BMW has a significant presence with its hydrogen-powered 700 series sedan. There are a handful driving around, as well as display units. Outside my hotel there is one of these, up on top of the mountain.
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
JANUARY 1, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Y’all will just have to live with overlapping series. I have too many ideas be sequential. I promise (!) more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JANUARY 31, 2007
Did I scare you! No worries. this is not a blog equivalent to a myspace suicide note. Just a pointer to an interesting post from Michael Gilbert on his authentic organization blog called Organizational Obituary -- that I have morphed into: Write down your blog???s obituary. How would it read if your readers were to write it? How would it read if other blog's in your field were to write it?
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Have Fun - Do Good
JANUARY 31, 2007
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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog
JANUARY 17, 2007
Five Things, redux I felt vaguely weird responding to the five-things game yesterday. so I was pleased to see that Jeff Atwood, author of the Coding Horror blog, also had complex feelings about responding. Which he did in a novel way. Look at that office: I guess he isn't working primarily for non-profits! He writes a great blog on software engineering and design though.
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JANUARY 11, 2007
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 24, 2007
I hope to share a little of the flavor of Davos as we get into what's going on. Davos is a little mountain town in a valley with ski slopes on both sides. There are basically two main drags around the town, an upper one and a lower one, that meet at the two ends of town and make a long winding oval. City buses and shuttle minivans circle around the town, mainly running around the racetrack (which is one-way in several areas).
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